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Reshoring America: Harry Moser on the $1.3 Trillion Mission to Balance the US Trade Deficit - Manufacturing Talk Radio Join hosts Amy Nicklaus and Lewis Weiss as they welcome back Harry Moser of the Reshoring Initiative to discuss his organization’s critical mission: balancing the $1.3 trillion US goods trade deficit and securing vital supply chains. Harry shares compelling data on how jobs announced coming back t...

The Mfg Meeting 2026 by AMT will be held in Ft Lauderdale on March 10-13th.
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Webinar, Navigating US tariffs on Swiss Products, next Wed, Jan 14th:

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Hats Off to Rajan Suri!
Our recent Reshoring Survey showed that 40% of OEMs would pay 10 to 20% more for 1 week instead of 6-week deliveries. (OEM Fig 4). I have always believed that one of the best tools to achieve such faster delivery is Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM). Fortunately, my good friend, Rajan Suri, the developer of QRM, has recently written a new article titled "Leveraging Strategic Demand Variability: The Role of Lead-Time Measurement." The article explains that demand variability can be a source of both competitive advantage and profit when it comes from meeting specific customer needs that are only defined soon before the customer expects delivery. Thus, domestic suppliers that specialize in providing high-mix, low-volume, and/or customized products made to order with short lead times have a built-in advantage over low-cost but distant suppliers that need weeks -- or even months -- to get their products manufactured and shipped to the USA.

In addition to the lead time advantage, implementing QRM at hundreds of companies has shown a second important benefit: by making products domestically and implementing QRM to slash lead times by as much as 80%, companies have reduced their indirect costs by 20% or more. This enables them to offer price reductions that can make the TCO for domestically sourced products more attractive to customers. Suri therefore recommends that companies looking to reshore production should look for segments in their markets with high demand variability, which he terms "strategic variability". As documented in the article, Suri's work with many companies over the years has demonstrated that leveraging this strategic variability not only helps bring production back on shore but also leads to increases in both market share and profitability. Suri's book "It's About Time" provides an excellent overview of QRM strategy. – HM mk will delete, but after posting to fb

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The History of Offshoring (and Why That Trend is Reversing)!

The History of Offshoring (and Why That Trend is Reversing) When you hear about companies offshoring to save costs, the story often ends there. But in this episode of Reshoring America, we go way deeper—with someone w...

Survey says: Reshoring is a Total Cost of Ownership Equation
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SMT007 Magazine - SMT007-Aug2025 16 SMT007 MAGAZINE I AUGUST 2025 F E AT U R E I N T E RV I E W by N o l a n J o h n s o n , I - C o n n e ct 0 07 Survey Says: Reshoring Is a TCO Equation H arry Moser, founder of the Reshoring Initiative, and Kathy Nunnally of Regions Recruiting partnered to survey contract manufacturers and OEMs e...

Here is part 2 of my series with Kathy Nunnally Anemogiannis:
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